Occupy Oakland aerial video: Cop crackdown on protester tent camp

Police in Oakland, California have cleared out a weeks-old encampment after issuing several warnings to Occupy demonstrators. Oakland police and officers from several other San Francisco Bay area cities encircled the downtown encampment before dawn and moved in at about 6 a.m. Officers were seen escorting handcuffed protesters away from the camp soon afterward. The action comes a day after police drove hundreds of anti-Wall Street demonstrators from encampments in Portland, Oregon, arresting more than 50 people. Oakland officials insisted on an end to their city's encampment after a man was shot and killed Thursday near the camp.

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[veniceit1]

Too many "ISMS" and not enough people willing to stand up for the Constitution and a government of the people, by the people and for the people has allowed things to be turned upside down and perverted. The current control is a government of the super rich, by the super rich and for the super rich. The little guy no longer matters to the corrupted office holders. They are owned by the big contributors/billionairea who get them into office and keep them in office. The common people are screwed.

[chylerreckeaolgodhul]

@FHPATRIOT Where does the comment continue?

[murf751]

you idiots who hate capitalism are so badly misled. You are against my freedom to open a corner store? If I want to sell hot dogs from a cart on the sidewalk, this is capitalism! huge corporate/ government monopolies are the opposite of capitalism. You are protesting your own freedom!! wtf is wrong with you? Instead of saying you hate "capitalism", why not say you are fed up with "greed" and a govt who is propping up huge monopolies and taxing the shit out of small business?

[c6gunner]

@tomuchbabble apparently your inability to spell is eclipsed only by your poor reasoning abilities.

[dickflax2011]

If I'm not mistaken, we encourged demonstrations in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya; So

now, our government, is cracking heads and pepper spraying. What am I missing?

[tomuchbabble]

@c6gunner Do you meen they finally got rid of the conservatives?

[tomuchbabble]

@jmwwd READ CAREFULLY I,m not liberal.

[tomuchbabble]

@jmwwd The worker losses rights, homes, pensions so the few profit from the down fall they created.

Capitalist system with socialitic ways , seeing the most needy are looked after works. Theres 12 or more systems. Braud, flexable. Theres a video on my site where a trader says they, Banks don't care what happens because they make money when the market colapses. OH, CUBA an inhaler cost less than $2

in the US $20 or more. Cuba had free health care.

[tomuchbabble]

@jmwwd cap·i·tal·ism /ˈkæpɪtlˌɪzəm/ Show Spelled[kap-i-tl-iz-uhm] Show IPA

noun

an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, especially as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth.

Control of wealth and power held by the few. Again 7 of 8 G8 democratic capitalist countries are buried in dept,

[tomuchbabble]

@jmwwd Countries going to green tech, high speed transit, acting to minamize global warming, pollution controls are creating long term well paid jobs. Canada & US lag behind bowing to big oil and nuclear. We have a company in canada putting free solar panels on roofs. The Home owner gets approx $1200.

Whatwe don't get told nuclear plants. Oil & nuke spend hundres of millions on lobbiests getting polatitions to protect their profits. Green could easily employ 10 times that of Nuclear plants.